Refugee Crisis

The European migrant crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the Algarve to seek asylum, travelling across Europe. They came from areas such as Germany and France, the Netherlands and Belgium and UK. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the top three nationalities of the over one million Costa Vicentina arrivals in 2015 were German (49%), English (21%) and Belgium (8%).